Aida Refugee Camp

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New York, July 9, 2013--Israeli authorities
should immediately release a Palestinian freelance journalist who was arrested
in a nighttime raid last week, and drop the charges against him, the Committee
to Protect Journalists said today.

Israeli forces shot Palestinian freelance photographer
Mohammed al-Azza, 23, in the face with a rubber-coated bullet on April 8, 2013,
in Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, according to local news reports. Al-Azza was
taken to a local hospital, where he underwent several surgeries to repair the broken
bones in his face.